No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.